Microsoft on Monday announced that Azure Backup for SQL Server had reached "general availability" status, meaning it's deemed ready for production-environment use. This service is used to backup SQL ...

Microsoft infrastructure uptime does not replace an organization's responsibility to back up its own Microsoft 365 data. Retention policies are designed for compliance and e-discovery, not operational ...

Our normal practices for backing up SQL servers is to use the regular SQL backup tools to perform full, differential and transaction log backups and this has always worked fine. Recently we performed ...

I have a SQL server that is freezing IO on all DBs 6 times per day at about 2am, 6am, 10am, 2pm, 6pm, and 10pm. These only freeze IO for approximately 2 seconds each time, but it is long enough that ...

Microsoft infrastructure uptime does not replace an organization's responsibility to back up its own Microsoft 365 data. Retention policies are designed for compliance and e-discovery, not operational ...